Why are we playing chess? Is it for the fun and joy of the game? Is it to train our brain, exercise the mind and sharpen our smartness? Do we enjoy the creativity, trying out wild sacrifices and interesting openings? Or do we like the competitive part? Granted one […]
Month: May 2020
Grischuk Plays Steinitz Memorial, Chessbrah Invitational Back-To-Back
Alexander Grischuk is playing two tournaments in one weekend. Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com Over-the-board chess has shifted to the internet and this weekend is more crowded than ever with both the FIDE Online Steinitz Memorial and the Chessbrah Invitational . GM Alexander Grischuk plays both. Steinitz Memorial The Steinitz Memorial […]
Grischuk Wins ‘Play For Russia’ Charity Event Which Raises Over $333,000
[Hwan Cho] (As the Coronavirus pandemic has negatively impacted many across the globe, chess masters like Grischuk and Tomashevsky are finding a way to help others in the midst of this pandemic)
Alexander Grischuk. Photo: Maria Emelianova/Chess.com. GM Alexander Grischuk won the “Play For Russia” tournament on Thursday after beating GM Evgeny Tomashevsky in the final. Held May 12-14, the online blitz tournament raised an impressive amount of over $333,000 for hospitals and health workers fighting the coronavirus epidemic in Russia. […]
Chess surge amid lockdown
Precious Bansal, a Chandigarh-based 11-year-old, plays chess. Tribune photo Jupinderjit Singh Chandigarh, April 14 Eleven-year-old Precious Bansal, a promising chess player from the city, had been sharpening her skills for the last few months in preparation for a number of tournaments scheduled from March onward, after her exams got […]
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Nakamura Streams, Wins Titled Tuesday Ahead Of Firouzja
There’s more news about GM Hikaru Nakamura this week, as the American grandmaster won the May 12 edition of Titled Tuesday with 9.5/10, finishing ahead of the Iranian prodigy Alireza Firouzja and 1,083 other participants. The next Titled Tuesday will be played on May 19 at 10 a.m. Pacific […]
Enter the dragon, in black and white: China win Online Nations Cup
A screenshot of the FIDE Online Nations Cup match between China’s Ding Liren and the United States’s Hikaru Nakamura. It was around midnight in Beijing that Chinese Grandmaster Wei Yi broke into a rueful smile, as his American opponent Fabiano Caruana, sitting in his beachside house in Miami, where […]